{"id":498977,"date":"2023-07-05T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T12:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=498977"},"modified":"2023-07-05T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:01:45","slug":"chatgpt-internet-browsing-feature-disabled-after-bypassing-paywalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/498977-chatgpt-internet-browsing-feature-disabled-after-bypassing-paywalls.html","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT web browsing feature disabled after bypassing paywalls"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI has temporarily disabled<\/strong><\/a> ChatGPT’s ability to search the web to augment its responses after users discovered it allowed them to access content behind website paywalls.<\/p>\n

ChatGPT first gave ChatGPT Plus subscribers the ability to search the Internet via Microsoft’s Bing search engine through a browser in late May 2023<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

To use “Browse with Bing,” ChatGPT web users had to install an official plugin.<\/p>\n

The feature was expanded to ChatGPT Plus subscribers on the mobile app<\/strong><\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

Since then, several users have discovered the browsing feature allows retrieving the full text published at some URLs.<\/p>\n

That could include content like news articles which might be locked behind a paywall.<\/p>\n

OpenAI decided to disable the feature from Monday, 3 July 2023m out of an “abundance of caution” and to ensure it did right by content owners.<\/p>\n

“We have learned that the ChatGPT Browse beta can occasionally display content in ways we don’t want,” the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n

OpenAI said it was working to bring the feature back “as quickly as possible”.<\/p>\n

Without Internet browsing capability, ChatGPT can only provide responses based on data available on the Internet before September 2021.<\/p>\n

However, OpenAI’s exclusive use of Microsoft’s Bing search engine has also raised concerns<\/a><\/strong> about potentially feeding ChatGPT with biased content and false information.<\/p>\n

A\u00a02019 Stanford study<\/strong><\/a> showed that Bing’s top search results included an “alarming” amount of disinformation and misinformation.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Microsoft Office’s Clippy assistant returns \u2014 with the power of ChatGPT<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Browse with Bing feature had been available in beta for ChatGPT Plus web users since May 2023 and launched for subscribers on the mobile app last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":498997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[62992,83065,123,84753,45266,13567],"class_list":["post-498977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-bing-search","tag-chatgpt","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-bing","tag-openai","tag-search-engines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499057,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498977\/revisions\/499057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}